Two drawings by former DS18 students John Cook and Ben Pollock will feature at international conferences and exhibitions in Michigan, USA and Toronto, Canada in September/October 2017.
The first, ‘CSP Plant Jupiter Overview 3000,’ was produced by John Cook for his project ‘Camdeboo Solar Estate’ for DS18 in 2014/15, when the studio worked in South Africa under the title ‘Designing with Energy, Fracking the Karoo’ (see here). It will be shown at Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural, an exhibition and symposium, that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. This will take place at the University of Michigan’s Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning from September 25 to October 19, 2017 (see here).
The second drawing, ‘Global Flows’ was produced by Ben Pollock for DS18 in 2015/16 when the studio worked in the Maldives under the title ‘Designing with Emergent Energies in a Fluid Archipelago’ (see here). It will be shown as part of EDIT: Expo for Design, Innovation and Technology, a 10-day festival taking place in Toronto from September 28 to October 8, 2017. EDIT is produced by Design Exchange, Canada’s Design Museum, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme, taking as its framework the UNDP’s 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development (see here)
DS18 is a studio taught by Lindsay Bremner and Roberto Bottazzi in the MArch programme at the University of Westminster, London, UK. The studios are covered under the teaching tab of this blog.
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